McLintock! (1963)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer:

James Edward Grant (original screenplay)

Release Date:

13 November 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Western

Tagline:

He likes his whiskey hard... His women soft... And his west all to himself!

Plot:

Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights his wife, his daughter, and political land-grabbers...

Plot Keywords:

Territorial Government | Arizona Territory | Brawl | Mudhole | Beautiful Woman

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

John Wayne	...	George Washington McLintock
Maureen O'Hara	...	Katherine Gilhooley McLintock
Patrick Wayne	...	Devlin Warren
Stefanie Powers	...	Becky McLintock
Jack Kruschen	...	Jake Birnbaum
Chill Wills	...	Drago
Yvonne De Carlo	...	Mrs. Louise Warren
Jerry Van Dyke	...	Matt Douglas Jr
Edgar Buchanan	...	Bunny Dull
Bruce Cabot	...	Ben Sage
Perry Lopez	...	Davey Elk
Strother Martin	...	Agard
Gordon Jones	...	Matt Douglas
Robert Lowery	...	Gov. Cuthbert H. Humphrey
Hank Worden	...	Curly Fletcher
Michael Pate	...	Puma
Edward Faulkner	...	Young Ben Sage
Mari Blanchard	...	Camille
Leo Gordon	...	Jones
Chuck Roberson	...	Sheriff Jeff Lord
Bob Steele	...	Train engineer
Aissa Wayne	...	Alice Warren
Big John Hamilton	...	Fauntleroy Sage (as 'Big' John Hamilton)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Danny Borzage	...	Loafer (uncredited)
Carol Daniels	...	Girl in general store (uncredited)
H.W. Gim	...	Ching (uncredited)
Duncan Inches	...	Cowhand (uncredited)
Cliff Lyons	...	(uncredited)
Hal Needham	...	Carter (uncredited)
Kari Noven	...	Millie Jones (uncredited)
Dean Smith	...	(uncredited)
John Stanley	...	Running Buffalo (uncredited)
Ralph Volkie	...	Oldtimer in saloon (uncredited)
Olaf Wieghorst	...	Cavalry sergeant (uncredited)

Directed by
Andrew V. McLaglen

Writing credits
James Edward Grant		(original screenplay)

Produced by
Michael Wayne	....	producer

Original Music by
Frank De Vol		(as De Vol)

Cinematography by
William H. Clothier		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Bill Lewis
Otho Lovering

Art Direction by
Eddie Imazu
Hal Pereira

Set Decoration by
Sam Comer
Darrell Silvera

Costume Design by
Ron Talsky		(uncredited)

Makeup Department
Web Overlander	....	makeup artist
Lorraine Roberson	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Howard Joslin	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Frank Parmenter	....	assistant director

Art Department
Gordon Cole	....	property
Earl Olin	....	property (as Earle Olin)
Gene Lauritzen	....	construction coordinator (uncredited)

Sound Department
Jack Solomon	....	sound
Howard Beals	....	sound (uncredited)

Stunts
Jim Burk	....	stunts (uncredited)
Polly Burson	....	stunts (uncredited)
Joe Canutt	....	stunts (uncredited)
Tap Canutt	....	stunts (uncredited)
David S. Cass Sr.	....	stunts (uncredited)
Quentin Dickey	....	stunts (uncredited)
Eddy Donno	....	stunts (uncredited)
Jerry Gatlin	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bob Harris	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bill Hart	....	stunts (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward	....	stunts (uncredited)
Tom Hennesy	....	stunts (uncredited)
Lucille House	....	stunts (uncredited)
Loren Janes	....	stunts (uncredited)
Roy Jenson	....	stunts (uncredited)
Terry Leonard	....	stunts (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan	....	stunts (uncredited)
Hal Needham	....	stunts (uncredited)
Stacy Newton	....	stunts (uncredited)
Harvey Parry	....	stunts (uncredited)
Rudy Robbins	....	stunts (uncredited)
Roy N. Sickner	....	stunts (uncredited)
Dean Smith	....	stunts (uncredited)
Paul Stader	....	stunts (uncredited)
Tom Steele	....	stunts (uncredited)
Neil Summers	....	stunts (uncredited)
Jack N. Young	....	stunts (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Frank Beetson Jr.	....	costume supervisor (as Frank C. Beetson Jr.)
Ann Peck	....	costumes: ladies (as Ann B. Peck)

Music Department
'By' Dunham	....	music coordinator

Other crew
Richard Chaffee	....	script supervisor (as Richard M. Chaffee)
Richard Kuhn	....	title designer: main titles
Cliff Lyons	....	technical advisor
Robert E. Morrison	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Batjac Productions (presents) (as Batjac)

Distributors

• United Artists (1963) (USA) (theatrical) (released thru)
• UAV Entertainment (1997) (USA) (DVD)
• Geneon Entertainment (1998) (USA) (DVD)
• Laserlight Entertainment (1999) (USA) (DVD)
• GoodTimes Home Video (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Delta Expedition (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• GoodTimes Home Video (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Suevia Films (2002) (Spain) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (VHS)
• Treeline Films (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Video (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2005) (worldwide) (TV)
• Passport International Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• United Artists (1964) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• United Artists (1964) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1967) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Gemstone Entertainment (????) (Uganda) (VHS)
• GoodTimes Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Kabaya Foods (2004) (Japan) (DVD)
• MPI Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Paramount Home Entertainment Finland (2007) (Finland) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Weton Wesgram (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Yleisradio (YLE) (2007) (Finland) (TV) (TV2)

Other Companies

• National Screen Service  main titles

Runtime:

127 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Spain:T | West Germany:6 (nf) | USA:Approved | Finland:K-16 | Australia:PG | UK:U

Filming Locations:

Nogales, Arizona, USA

Company:

Batjac Productions

Trivia:

Although Stefanie Powers claims that John Ford came to the set to direct the movie for a week, Andrew V. McLaglen the director says that it never happened. He says he was there for the entire shoot of the movie.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Katie runs into the store and is covered with tar and feathers, she calls G.W. into the store. His scarf is in one position and when he comes back out it is in a different position.

Quotes:

George Washington McLintock: Cuthbert H. Humphrey, Governor of our territory, is a cull. Do you know what a cull is, ma'am? A cull is a specimen that is so worthless that you have to cut him out of the herd. Now if all the people in the world were put in one herd, Cuthbert is the one I would throw a rope at.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-02-18)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Just Right For Me

The Duke's Most Personal Film

Whatever you think of John Wayne's politics, they were never better expressed more convincingly or with more entertainment than they are in McLintock. At first glance this film is a rough house western version of The Taming of the Shrew. But it is far more than that, it is the closest thing we have to a film manifesto of the world as John Wayne saw it.

As G.W. McLintock, the Duke is the American dream personified. The man who came west and by dint of his own sweat and labor built a cattle empire. He did it without the government's help and note how he tells the settlers the government doesn't 'give' anything away. One of the three people identified as villains in his world view is land agent Gordon Jones. He's a liberal in McLintock, peddling the view that government help is the answer to all of our problems.

McLintock rather broadly satirizes other people who Wayne considers liberals. The know-it-all college kid Jerry Van Dyke, the tanglefooted bureaucrat Indian agent Strother Martin, the oily politician Robert Lowery these people get quite a going over.

Wayne doesn't 'give' anybody anything. As he says to son Patrick Wayne in my favorite line in all John Wayne movies, "I don't give jobs, I hire men." That's a creed he followed in real life as well.

Sad to say though the world isn't as simple as McLintock would have us believe. McLintock takes place in the age of the robber barons and those folks were not as noble in character as G.W. McLintock. Maybe the world ought to be like it is in McLintock, but it ain't.

McLintock is one grand piece of entertainment though. The comedy is as broad and unsophisticated as you would find in any John Ford film and with good reason as Wayne and Director Andrew McLaglen learned the movie trade from him.

In addition to dealing with the assorted 'liberals' mentioned above, the Duke has some domestic concerns. Wife Maureen O'Hara has left him, but is back over where their daughter Stefanie Powers will reside. Maureen is playing the same role she did in Rio Grande and later on in Big Jake, the estranged wife who circumstances force her back with Wayne. In the case of McLintock though these are circumstances that Wayne makes on his own with some inspiration from The Taming of the Shrew.

The cast is populated with a grand cast of regulars from previous Wayne films like Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Hank Worden, Leo Gordon, Michael Pate, and some already mentioned.

Jack Kruschen makes his one and only film appearance in a Wayne film here. He does very well as the kindly, benevolent and obviously Jewish storekeeper. He's got an important function also here, as another self made American success story in the same film.

Yvonne DeCarlo got cast in this film after her husband who was a stunt man was injured badly on another film. She had heavy duty medical expenses and Wayne was not about charity. But he was legendary for taking care of fellow performers giving them a pay day in his films if they needed it. He didn't give jobs, he hired men and women. Yvonne is Pat Wayne's mother in the film who Maureen suspects of being Wayne's mistress when she's hired as a housekeeper.

We also get an economics lecture from the Duke as well. He works for "every man who goes to a butcher shop and wants a T-Bone steak." And Pat Wayne works for him. It's what makes the capitalist system go.

If you take some of the politics expressed with a critical eye, McLintock is fabulous entertainment, one of the Duke's best films.